Word: ida
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Nijinsky was in a Swiss insane asylum, Ida Rubinstein was aging in Paris, Léon Bakst was dead, but Michel Fokine was in Manhattan watching another Scheherazade which he had produced on ten days notice. Fokine's Scheherazade was the indoor sensation of Paris in 1910 and the outdoor sensation of New York in 1934. Jammed to capacity, Lewisohn Stadium seated 15,000, gave standing room to 2,000. Police reserves were called to handle a crowd of 10,000 who jostled outside the gates, were unable to get in. Quick to seize the advantages...
Some 900 cases of infantile paralysis have been reported in Los Angeles County during the past two months. Only seven deaths occurred during the epidemic which, county authorities believe, has passed its peak. In Hollywood cinema folk closed their private swimming pools when Actress Ida Lupino, and Cameraman Hal Rosson, estranged husband of Jean Harlow, contracted mild cases of the disease...
...quality of the performances. But listeners for the season topped 1,000,000. The impresario was Alfredo Salmaggi, a longhaired, high-strung Italian who taught the late Queen Margherita to play the mandolin, carries Caruso's silver-headed cane and specializes in Aïida with horses, elephants, camels...
Search for Beauty (Paramount) is a benign sexual romp, publicized as an apostrophe to beauty, male as well as female ("Venus-like Girls! Tarzan-like Men!"). It presents: 30 handsome youngsters picked in promotional beauty contests throughout the U. S. and the British Empire; neat blonde Ida Lupino and muscular Larry ("Buster") Crabbe (Tarzan the Fearless). Lupino and Crabbe are Olympic swimmers. Hired by a pair of shifty rogues (James Gleason, Robert Armstrong) to run a physical culture magazine, they are soon shocked to discover what a crooked venture it really is. Crabbe is so vigorously honest that his employers...
...every topic in his medical writings to indicate that the topical "cow has been milked dry." Donor of the Matas Medal is Mike Sam Hart, big-boned, generous New Orleans Jew whose family grew rich in New Orleans public utilities. Mike Hart's late sister, Violet Ida Hart, singer, was long a Matas patient. Her dying wish: "We must do something big for Dr. Matas, something that really will show our appreciation...